Beginning next week, contractors will begin installing roadside signs and safety barriers on an approximately 18-mile stretch of Interstate 26, the first step in a $534 million project that will add multiple lanes to the heavily trafficked road. The N.C. Department of Transportation anticipates that construction will wrap up by the summer of 2024.
![I-26 crossing Long Shoals Road](https://mountainx.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BEAT2_I-26-330x248.jpg)